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[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

i was confused for way to long, trying to figure out
why a pilot would investigate a github alternative.

im an idiot 😂😂😂

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 5 points 11 months ago

He's not even experienced, he's new! Why's he the one we picked to investigate?

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I knew about codeberg but not forgejo

Codeberg is a public non-profit Forgejo instance hosted by the actual maintainers of the tool. They’re compromised with free software and provide their services with no pay walls other than a single limitaiton: only accepting open-source projects in their instance. That shouldn’t be a problem if you want to work on open-source, right?

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/forgejo-in-a-nutshell/2505867

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 14 points 11 months ago

This is the FOSS community, open up!

[–] dewittlebook@lemdro.id 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Made up of" -> the non profit consists of software that must be free and open source..?

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 9 points 11 months ago

It's a typo. It should be "comprised".

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[–] neshura@bookwormstory.social 10 points 11 months ago

Forgejo is developed by the people at Codeberg, they just rebranded their own Forgejo instance to Codeberg and added some extra around it (like Pages or the FAQ sections)

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

GitHub uses Git, and you don’t need any cool interface for Git, just a terminal. But we don’t like terminals, they’re ugly! Issues, pull requests, projects, wikis, actions… thanks to code management.

This guy doesn't git.

[–] BOFH666@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Noticed someone mentioning this (the product ) last weekend and did a next-next-finish install on some old hardware.

This is really nice, got me some nice actions running already.

I used to build locally and use git, cgit and Trac, but will probably move everything to forgejo.

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Trac

That's a name I haven't heard in a looong time. I used to use a pre-1.0 version before GitHub became popular.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m confused on the use of GitHub in schools, can’t they just host their own git?

[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hah hahaha hahahahaha

Our school systems are admined by teachers with only half a clue of what they are doing with only a few hours per week as a budget. This isn't meant as an offense, math teachers that like to fiddle with computers in their free time are just not qualified to run the infrastructure for schools

Source: am the son of such a teacher in Germany

[–] xohshoo@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

wasn't sure if I was on linux or esperanto community for a minute there

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Well at least they're going to usei something decent and not the Apache Allura crap.